Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 28 > Chapter 31 > Article 1 - General Provisions

• Car sharing delivery period: means the period of time during which a shared vehicle is being delivered to the location of the car sharing start time as documented by the governing car sharing program agreement. See Arizona Laws 28-9601
• Car sharing period: means the period of time that begins with the car sharing delivery period or the car sharing start time if there is no car sharing delivery period and ends at the car sharing termination time. See Arizona Laws 28-9601
• Car sharing start time: means the time when a shared vehicle becomes subject to the control of the shared vehicle driver at or after the time that the reservation of the shared vehicle is scheduled to begin as documented in the records of a peer-to-peer car sharing program. See Arizona Laws 28-9601
• Car sharing termination time: means the earliest of the following:

  (a) The agreed period of time established for the use of a shared vehicle in the governing car sharing program agreement expires and the shared vehicle is delivered to a location that is specified in the governing car sharing program agreement. See Arizona Laws 28-9601

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of transportation acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Drive: means to operate or be in actual physical control of a motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Driver: means a person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Driver license: means a license that is issued by a state to an individual and that authorizes the individual to drive a motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Individual-owned shared vehicle: means one of the following:

  (a) If the shared vehicle is purchased in this state, a shared vehicle for which the owner certifies that the transaction privilege tax was paid on the purchase of the shared vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-9601

• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Nonresident: means a person who is not a resident of this state as defined in section 28-2001. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Owner: means :

  (a) A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101

• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Shared vehicle driver: means an individual who has been authorized to drive the shared vehicle by the shared vehicle owner under a car sharing program agreement. See Arizona Laws 28-9601
• Shared vehicle owner: means the registered owner, or a person or entity designated by the registered owner, of a vehicle that is made available for sharing to shared vehicle drivers through a peer-to-peer car sharing program. See Arizona Laws 28-9601
• State: means a state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215